"it's clear that the company is taking HD seriously this time around."

Are they? I mean, you have a 2d platformer and a game originally planned for Wii and they don't even output 1080p?
I see people defending this as, well....you know..it's hard, cut 'em some slack! Or, hey, casuals don't care about the difference in resolution! Well that's not taking HD seriously enough for me.

I still think Nintendo gambled wrong when showing off their third party support. It's not necessarily bad that Batman, Mass Effect, etc are getting ported over, but that's the problem: nothing new. I think once Watch Dogs, or the new Star Wars games gets shown off, most people can stop arguing (Assuming they get shown off).

This is because their initial information release is targeted solely at current Wii owners.  They plan to target current HD console owners over the next couple of months.  That is where you'll see things not yet announced that will interest PS3/X360 owners.

Haha, sorry I just skimmed it. It was a bit of a silly article though, especially this sentence: They’ve made the Wii U just powerful enough to display decent graphics, but not powerful enough where it competes solely on performance. I mean as if making the console more powerful would mean there is somehow less potential for 'innovation' in games and that can be the only focus - the sort of rubbish I'd expect out of a wiiudaily artile, frankly. 

@thebolded Well yeh, that's the key sentence here,  I keep hearing these excuses for them but I'm afraid I just get less interested with their attitude day by day...the only thing they've done to wow me these past few years are the Galaxy games, it seems like they've been outclassed on everything else* Oops forgot Xenoblade, haven't tried that yet so can't comment on their JRPG output :). I know it's a small thing on its own but, not taking the effort to even get their new flagship franchise installment running in 1080p, on their new more powerful, expensive system....ugh. They have a tiny dev outclassing them with Toki Tori for christ's sake (i.e. running 1080p)!

i think you missed his point.  the toki tori dev said "wii U can output 1080p withtout breaking a sweat".  NSWB wii U isn't technically any more complex and really should be able to do 1080p easily.  so why isn't it?

There's a difference between native rendered resolution and capable output. Which are we driving at here?

Similarly with the Toki Tori comment, we don't know if Two Tribes just meant 1080 output or 1080 rendering.

From what I read, all their first party titles are 720p (resolution),and  TT2 is confirmed to run at native 1080p. 

Well that scuppered my question.

I was wondering if perhaps any games that can be played without a TV screen might have a lower native res that matches whatever the UPad res is (is it 720 or is it SD?)

@bold easy answer, they want to get money as fast as they can, no time for 1080p. Hopefully this will not be the case for future franchises 

Either way though, Nintendo isn't even outputting at 1080p. Isn't that an issue in and of its own if Nintendo is truly serious about HD (and its highest form in the common realm 1080p)?

@TwRoO. It's SD I think. http://www.techdigest.tv/2011/06/wii_u_controlle.html